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Lucy Davenport, grieving her husband Tom’s harrowing death from bile duct cancer, is demanding change to the assisted dying bill, calling his passing a “horror film death” even with top-tier palliative care. She argues that while palliative care is vital, it’s not enough for everyone, and people deserve the option to end their suffering with dignity. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, influenced by his father’s dementia battle, now urges delaying the bill until palliative care is perfected — a stance Lucy finds deeply painful and unjust. Joining her, campaigners Louise Shackleton and Josh Cook, also facing terminal illness, insist that extreme suffering can’t always be eased by care alone, and that denying assisted dying is inhumane. The debate underscores a growing rift: how to best honor patient autonomy and compassion at life’s end.

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